[cairo] render text along path

[Bobby Salazar]

Does anyone have a screenshot of what this is supposed to look like? I am trying to get it to work without pango, but I don't think it's working right. If anyone has a picture it would be much appreciated!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: behdad at behdad.org
> Sent: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:34:13 -0500
> To: kevin.atkinson at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [cairo] render text along path
> 
> Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>> For what I was doing, I actually want the text to warp, so that's all to
>> the good.
>> 
>> The remaining challenge is warping text along b-splines or beziers.
>> You'll note that in the warpedtext.py example, the paths that the text
>> is warped along are simple little curves - a spiral and a circle.  I
>> want to warp text along a spline, and so need to parametrize it by
>> arclength, which is not completely trivial, and generate a normal to the
>> spline.  I've found a couple useful references in this regard, but if
>> anyone knows of some existing code that plays nice with cairo already,
>> it would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> My cairotwisted code that I posted earlier does exactly that:
> 
> http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/pango/trunk/examples/cairotwisted.c?view=markup
> 
> behdad
> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Kevin
>> 
>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Dirk Schönberger
>> <dirk.schoenberger at sz-online.de <mailto:dirk.schoenberger at sz-online.de>>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>     > Pycairo comes with the example examples/warpedtext.py which draws
>> text
>>     > along a path.
>>     >
>> 
>>     The example looks interesting.
>>     The only problem I see is that this method warps the actual glyphs.
>>     In a pure text on path I think the glyphs should be only rotated,
>>     transformed or scaled, while the actual "point data" (outlines) are
>> not
>>     changed.
>> 
>>     Regards
>>     Dirk
>> 
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